Transclude lead excerpt transcludes the lead of an article as an excerpt. It is designed for use in portals, stand-alone lists and outlines. It returns the text of the named article up to but excluding the first header, after removing:

initial templates such as infoboxes, hatnotes and article improvement tags

noinclude sections

references and footnotes

images, unless specifically retained

Contents

Usage

The template requires one parameter: the name of the page to be transcluded. Include a namespace where necessary. There are no other positional parameters, but there are some optional named parameters:

A list of paragraphs such as paragraphs=1,3-5; the default is all paragraphs.

A list of file (image) numbers such as files=1; the default is no images. Non-free images are removed.

Arguments to pass to File: such as fileargs=left to move images to the left; the default is none.

A link to the article itself such as more=(more); the default is no link. Short cut: more= produces Read more...

errors= to allow Lua error messages to appear in the output

paragraphs= and files= each accept a comma-separated list containing numbers and/or number ranges in the format min-max. Alternatively, files= can accept the name of a single image, e.g. files=My image file.jpg.

Page options

Each page to be transcluded may be specified either plain or as a wikilink, possibly piped. Links to sections also work, and extract the named section rather than the lead. Examples: Article; Article#Section; [[Article]]; [[Article#Section|A section of an article]]. (Any piped text will be ignored.)

Any of the above formats may be followed by option(s) separated by pipes, e.g. Article|paragraphs=2. Such options override any global options for the given page only. Note that the characters | and = have special meaning within calls to templates but can be escaped using {{!}} and {{=}} respectively. Examples: Article#Section{{!}}files{{=}}2; [[Article|Some page]]{{!}}files{{=}}3,4{{!}}more{{=}}Click here. (= need not be escaped if the parameter is explicitly numbered, e.g. 1=Article{{!}}files=2). The rare case of a pipe within page options must be doubly escaped. For example, to set display Custom image.jpg on the left with a custom caption, set fileargs to left|Custom caption using Article{{!}}files{{=}}Custom image.jpg{{!}}fileargs{{=}}left{{((}}!{{))}}Custom caption.